Home smoking bans may increase the risk of smoking onset in children when both parents smoke

Jennifer L O'LoughlinNicotine Tob Res 16:1009-13. 2014

Predictors of the occurrence of smoking discontinuation in novice adolescent smokers

Jennifer L O'LoughlinAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 23:1090-101. 2014

Incidence and determinants of cigarette smoking initiation in young adults

Home smoking bans may increase the risk of smoking onset in children when both parents smoke

Jennifer L O'LoughlinNicotine Tob Res 16:1009-13. 2014

..Our objective was to determine if there is effect modification by home smoking bans in the association between parental smoking and cigarette smoking onset in children...

Predictors of the occurrence of smoking discontinuation in novice adolescent smokers

Jennifer L O'LoughlinAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAuthors Affiliations Centre de recherche CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 23:1090-101. 2014

..The objective was to identify the predictors of the occurrence of smoking discontinuation in novice smokers...

Incidence and determinants of cigarette smoking initiation in young adults

..The Monitoring Activities of Teenagers to Comprehend their Habits (MATCH) study is a prospective cohort study that uses quantitative and qualitative methods to develop new knowledge on the sustainability of specific physical activities...

..Adolescent tobacco control programs should address multiple individual and contextual-level risk factors. Strategies that address nicotine dependence symptoms are also needed for adolescents who have already initiated smoking...

Does cigarette use influence adiposity or height in adolescence?

Jennifer O'LoughlinDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, QC, CanadaAnn Epidemiol 18:395-402. 2008

..To study the effect of cigarette use on height and adiposity in adolescents...

Association between cigarette smoking and C-reactive protein in a representative, population-based sample of adolescents

Jennifer O'LoughlinDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, CRCHUM, MontrealNicotine Tob Res 10:525-32. 2008

..Damage related to cigarette smoking may begin soon after tobacco use initiation, reinforcing the preventive message that no level of smoking is safe in youth...

Does the "healthy immigrant effect" extend to smoking in immigrant children?

..Interventions may be needed for immigrant children to prevent the adoption of unhealthy behaviors prevalent in their new host environments...

Gender differences among general practitioners in smoking cessation counseling practices

Jennifer O'LoughlinCR CHUM and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaPrev Med 45:208-14. 2007

..To describe gender differences in smoking cessation counseling practices among general practitioners (GPs), and to investigate the association between training for cessation counseling and counseling practices according to gender...

Vitamin D status is modestly associated with glycemia and indicators of lipid metabolism in French-Canadian children and adolescents

..Although the observed associations between 25(OH)D concentrations and fasting glucose, and variables of lipid metabolism are modest, they may have a potential long-term impact on cardiovascular risk...

Prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors by weight status in a population-based sample of Quebec children and adolescents

..Although obesity is associated with important hemodynamic disturbances, there are few data on population-wide blood pressure (BP) distribution in children and adolescents in this era of endemic pediatric obesity...

..Smaller, denser LDL particles are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In youths, data on the distribution of LDL particle size and on its association with other CVD risk factors are limited...

The efficacy of smoking cessation therapies in cardiac patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

..The objective of this paper is to describe the association between smoking intolerance in schools, and in restaurants and corner stores located near schools, and initiation of cigarette smoking among adolescents...

Pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

..However, few direct or indirect comparisons of such interventions have been conducted. We performed a meta-analysis to compare the treatment effects of 7 approved pharmacologic interventions for smoking cessation...

Predictors of nicotine dependence symptoms among never-smoking adolescents: a longitudinal analysis from the Nicotine Dependence in Teens Study

..Interventions to improve F&V consumption should aim to improve awareness among parents of the importance of fruits and vegetables and of the impact of their own behavior on their children's F&V consumption...

..The objective of this study was to assess the association between tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 gene with blood pressure and blood pressure change in adolescents...

..Our study suggests that the effects of FABP2 allelic variations on lipid traits are context dependent, indicating that this variant may play an important role in cardiovascular pathogenesis in the presence of IRS or hypertriglyceridemia...

Adiponectin, adiposity, and insulin resistance in children and adolescents

..This study uses a large population-based sample to test if maternal or paternal history of mood and/or anxiety disorders increases the risk of mood and/or anxiety disorders, or symptoms of specific anxiety disorders, in offspring...

Mechanical efficiency during a cycling test is not lower in children with excess body weight and low aerobic fitness

..High systolic blood pressure (SBP) occurs more frequently both among men and boys than among women and girls. No longitudinal study has investigated whether the impact of SBP determinants differ according to sex in youth...

Low vitamin D status in a representative sample of youth from Québec, Canada

..The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the availability of intramural or extramural sports in secondary schools is associated with physical activity levels in youth throughout secondary school and at age 20...

..The objective of this study was to examine the influence of income and the conjoint influence of low income and food insecurity on several dietary indicators in a representative sample of Canadian youth...

C-reactive protein and features of the metabolic syndrome in a population-based sample of children and adolescents

An investigation of social and pharmacological exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke as possible predictors of perceived nicotine dependence, smoking susceptibility, and smoking expectancies among never-smoking youth

..The aim of the present study was to replicate and extend these findings by investigating whether social and pharmacological measures of SHS exposure predicted precursors to smoking among never-smoking adolescents...

Do the correlates of smoking cessation counseling differ across health professional groups?

..40 (1.02, 1.90), 1.85 (1.05, 3.27) and 1.51 (1.06, 2.15), respectively). Thus, several SNPs located in CHRN genes are associated with dizziness at first inhalation, a smoking initiation phenotype that may relate to sustained smoking...